Good with vacation/personal/sick days. Great manager. Great team of assistants to work with. Great sales account executives.

Cons

Promotional ladder lacks. I was there for almost 3 years and deserved to be promoted and never got it. The company, however, was sold and major layoffs happened. I left shortly after my department started to get hit for another job opportunity. One manager I worked with caused so much stress on my department that a lot of people, even who didn't report to her, left because of her. HR was notifitied of the behavior and never did anything. She is still there and still causing stress.

The people I worked with and our benefits were great. The newly renovated design floor was amazing.

Cons

-Extremely late hours on the Jessica Simpson Brand.. ZERO work to life balance. My first day lasted until 9pm. My second day til 11pm. You were expected to work 80-90 hour weeks all the time. -Management would purposely schedule meetings at 9 and 10pm so you were forced to stay late. -Design did the job of Design, Tech Design, Production and Merchandising. -We were forced to come in on the weekend AND federal holidays without pay.

Advice to Management

-Stand up for your teams. Extra work got piled on to design because the other departments couldn't keep up. No company needs 2 differently styled lined sheets because the Merchants refuse to work with one type. -so many last minute changes and extra work for no reason. It was impossible to finish all the work that needed to get done, including if you worked late AND came in on the weekend. -we designed almost 4-1. waste of factories time, our time. -Who schedules meetings at 9pm? -zero respect for your teams, did not care about our health, or well-being. Never showed appreciation for all the hours put in.

Very bad upper mgt, poor decisions, no trust in people, ultimately gave up and sold out company to capital group for large retirement packages decimating workforce in its wake which they said was not going to happen